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Moderate earthquake, 5 mag was detected near Kulu in Turkey

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A moderate earthquake magnitude 5 (ml/mb) strikes 11 kilometers (7 miles) from Kulu in Turkey on Thursday. Date and time of earthquake in UTC/GMT: 15/05/25 / 2025-05-15 12:46:37 / May 15, 2025 @ 12:46 pm. Exact location of earthquake, longitude 33.2008 East, latitude 39.1347 North, depth = 10 km. Event ids that are associated to the earthquake: us7000pzcl. Id of event: us7000pzcl. The temblor was reported at 12:46:37 / 12:46 pm (local time epicenter). A tsunami warning has not been issued (Does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist). The epicenter was at a depth of 10 km (6 miles).

Nearest cities/city/villages to epicentrum/hypocenter was Polatlı, Mucur, Batikent (min 5000 pop). Earthquake epicenter was 92 km (57 miles) from Ankara (c. 3 517 200 pop), 92 km (57 miles) from Çankaya (c. 792 200 pop), 101 km (63 miles) from Batikent (c. 300 000 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kırıkkale (c. 211 100 pop), 83 km (52 miles) from Kırşehir (c. 94 300 pop), 104 km (64 miles) from Polatlı (c. 93 300 pop), 70 km (43 miles) from Keskin (c. 49 700 pop). Nearby country/countries, Turkey (c. 77 804 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 5.0 to 6.0 may cause light damage to buildings and other structures. There are an estimated 1320 moderate earthquakes in the world each year. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has occurred nearby.

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Did objects rattle, topple over, or fall off shelves? Leave a comment or report about activity, shaking and damage at your home, country and city. Read more about the earthquake, Distances, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Parameters, Location and details about this quake, that has struck: 11 km ENE of Kulu, Turkey. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	5 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	33.2008° East	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	39.1347° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	10 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	11 km ENE of Kulu, Turkey	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2025-05-15 12:46:37	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2025-05-15 13:05:41	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset		Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt	2	The total number of felt reports
CDI	2.7	The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	reviewed	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	385	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	us	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,us,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	121	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.797	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	1.11 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	19	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	mww	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	us7000pzcl	Id of event.
Event Code	7000pzcl	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,us7000pzcl,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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